Walk in Bristol
with Richie
5 Nearest Attraction
(118 feet - 1 min walking)
(0,1 mile - 3 min walking)
3. Royal West of England Academy (RWA)
(0,2 mile - 4 min walking)
(0,2 mile - 4 min walking)
(0,2 mile - 5 min walking)
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Nearest Public Toilet
Bristol Museum and Art Gallery
(Community Toilet Scheme)
Accessible
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The Bristol Improv Theatre
50 St Paul's Rd, Bristol BS8 1LP
Official website:
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The Bristol Improv Theatre is the home of improvised theatre and comedy in the South West UK.
This historic building has served the wider Bristol community for many years.
After months of refurbishments it now boasts multi-purpose theatre spaces, high spec technical equipment and an experienced team of event managers and technicians to help you realise your event.
Richie's opinion :
"Unfortunately I haven't had fortune to visit an event of the Bristol Improv theatre yet, but I heard just good review of this place: fab venue with a nice bar area, great vibe, welcoming and amazing staff and acts - so I am very curious to this place, and I wait to the time, when I can visit it."
About the Bristol Improv Theatre
The Bristol Improv Theatre is the UK’s first full-time dedicated improv theatre.
They create, teach and perform spontaneous theatre that is accessible, creatively ambitious and unapologetically entertaining, as well as hosting troupes from all over the UK and overseas, bringing world-class improv to Bristol.
Their venue in Clifton is a home for Bristol’s amazing improv community.
Some people join as students, taking classes to build confidence and unlock creativity; others jump on stage at our monthly improv jam, or perform in shows with the community theatre group, the Unscripted Players.
Others just turn up and enjoy the shows and get to know fellow performers and theatre lovers with a pint in the bar afterwards. They've been described as the friendliest place in Bristol!
When they aren’t putting our own shows and classes, The Bristol Improv Theatre plays host to some of Bristol’s best independent producers and practitioners to populate our programme with a smorgasbord of exciting live entertainment, including Bristol Bad Film Club, Bristol Film Festival, Bristol Burlesque Festival, and many more.
Events and Tickets:
https://improvtheatre.co.uk/upcoming-shows/
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Flagship shows
https://improvtheatre.co.uk/upcoming-shows/category/flagship-shows/
Homegrown Heroes
https://improvtheatre.co.uk/upcoming-shows/category/homegrown-heroes/
Visiting Acts
https://improvtheatre.co.uk/upcoming-shows/category/visiting-acts/
Community Event
https://improvtheatre.co.uk/upcoming-shows/category/community-event/
Bristol Comedy History Walk
(Discover some of Bristol’s most humorous and surprising secrets on The Bristol Comedy History Walk!
A hilarious guided tour of the South West’s coolest city, led by improvisers and comedians.)
https://improvtheatre.co.uk/upcoming-show/the-bristol-comedy-history-walk/2023-05-13/
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By Phone
Give the Box Office a call on 07936 617158
Phone line opening hours:
Monday – Tuesday 10am – 9pm
Wednesday – Friday 10am – 5pm
Theatre School
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Whether you’re an actor looking to add a new string to your bow, a ‘not-even-the-school-nativity’ stage-phobe wanting to build your confidence, or you simply want to add some spontaneity, creativity and laughter to your life, The Bristol Improv Theatre has got a class for you.
The Bristol Improv Theatre School’s work and training is based in theatrical narrative long-form, using an approach that has been built from training with improv masters and practitioners from all over the world, their own experiments over years of teaching, and discoveries from performing improv and theatre professionally.
https://improvtheatre.co.uk/upcoming-shows/category/theatre-school/
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History
The Bristol Improv Theatre started life in 2012 as the Bristol Improv Network, founded by a volunteer-led collective of artists, teachers and producers to forge connections between the existing improv groups in Bristol. After a debut performance at the Bristol Old Vic’s Improv Jam, they ran the first Bristol Improv Festival in 2013 from a series of pubs and music venues, featuring a line-up of local and visiting acts including Racing Minds, Project2, Closer Each Day, Instant Wit and Degrees of Error.
Two festivals, hundreds of classes and jams, and various venues (at wildly different levels of suitability) later, they started producing regular shows from the Polish Ex-servicemen’s Club on St Paul’s Road in Clifton and two years later became permanent tenants of the building. In two months, £27k of crowdfunding and a team of 40+ volunteers transformed this former-Victorian-schoolhouse-turned-working-mens-club-cum-live-music-venue into a purpose-built 120-seat theatre space, with licensed bar, rehearsal rooms and office.
Thanks to the hard work of their team and the support of their incredible community, a small project to unite Bristol’s improv scene has grown into a thriving multi-disciplinary cultural venue where Bristolians can engage with the arts in a truly participative environment.
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